Quotes About Self-acceptance

I think I have the right to be able to see myself differently from how others see me, to see myself however I want and not to be forced to be this person other people have decided I am.

The esteem of others is outside our control; we must attend instead to healing ourselves.

That as a smart person, whose brain races faster and harder than the next person's, you can't accomplish something like stopping your racing mind from worrying doesn't mean that you have a disorder or that you are a failure.

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

The abandoned Inner Child is constantly afraid of being wrong because it believes that being wrong is what leads to rejection. Therefore, it strives to find the "right" way to be in the world. It becomes addicted to "shoulds" and rules as a way to control rejection. It develops a need to be perfect and a belief that it is possible to be perfect. Perfectionism and the fear of being wrong are symptoms of the internal disconnection between the Adult and the Child.

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

You'll never make me ashamed of who I am or what I look like.

En lugar de envejecer, enguapezco. Mis canas dan ganas.

The needs of the eating disorder sufferer are like a warped version of the travails we all face when learning to eat.

For people with eating disorders, food is both a poison and the remedy, but this is true for the rest of us as well. Food is an inescapable fact of life and the task for each of us is to find a way to make out peace with it.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

So sure, I had to dig out of a little insecurity hole vocally, but I don't blame my parents for this. We are all a work in progress.

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

Do you want to be really happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

You shouldn't be embarrassed by the things you do because that's who you are. Your quirks are what separate you from all of the dull, regular and boring people who all look and act the same as everyone else.

If we look outside ourselves to find love and peace we will ultimately fail. It has to come from within.

Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to the library, but I was made to grow up feeling 'other.' Most books, films - even advertisements - didn't reflect how I felt, and I often watched the world from the outside.

We should not become so ashamed of the disappointments and travesties of democracy that we become ashamed of the idea itself. It is the outer reflection of our self-acceptance.

I don't hate what I see when I look in the mirror. Even if legions of others don't agree. I have accepted the reflection that reliably bounces back at me for its perks and its flaws.

It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.

When people look at 'Aadai's posters and say that I've attempted something bold, it actually reflects me being secure about myself.